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Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

The Joy of Music

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

Living is hard--dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really--except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.

Ruin

No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.

Real Presences

Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.

The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence

You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you’re trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is.

Seven Dogs in Heaven

Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Why is war so much like a practical joke? she thinks. Hiding behind bushes, leaping out, with not much difference between Boo! and Bang! except the blood.

MaddAddam

There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

The Maltese Falcon

Can I ask you, what is your relationship to God?” “Limited,” I say. “Limited with the exception of spontaneous prayer in times of distress.

May We Be Forgiven

Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.

A Model for Living

This place is just a trailer for a film, Brandon. Our lives here. Heaven is like the movie. Except there’s only one trailer before the movie. And the movie won’t ever end.

Marvelous

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

The Moon and Sixpence

A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

Mr. Wrong

Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

The Name of This Book Is Secret

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

To the Lighthouse

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

Linger

A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

The Little Silkworm

Love is like water, except it’s either fog or ice. I make love like a steamy 32 degrees.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?

The Last Unicorn